Is it me, or is the first hour and fifteen minutes of the new Mission Impossible the talkiest movie since Twelve Angry Men? #MissionExposition - ThreadSky

mrjoncryer.bsky.social • 32 days ago

Is it me, or is the first hour and fifteen minutes of the new Mission Impossible the talkiest movie since Twelve Angry Men?

#MissionExposition

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sadknob.bsky.social•32 days ago

it is.

sylvestermarcus.bsky.social•32 days ago

The wife and I saw it yesterday. We agreed the entire thing could have been shaved down.

playingpolitics.bsky.social•32 days ago

OMG. Spoiler alert please. I haven’t seen Twelve Angry Men.

eevets.bsky.social•32 days ago

Won't see it because cruise is in it. Don't like him

callmejon1989.bsky.social•32 days ago

forrealgirl.bsky.social•32 days ago

I agree

gamb7.bsky.social•32 days ago

Great movie and a reason to watch it again. 👍

manatr0n.bsky.social•32 days ago

So i can skip the first hour?

thetaxdude.bsky.social•32 days ago

The last hour and a half makes up for it.

shaneway.bsky.social•31 days ago

They were thinking of people my dad’s age (late 70’s) that didn’t marathon and had forgotten what happened in the earlier ones. I also enjoyed it, but my buddy who actually did marathon this week, complained it was a little slow on the front end. Your point is spot on.

michaelspoint.bsky.social•31 days ago

Impossible? They need to find a new title.

elisa515.bsky.social•32 days ago

Well, there's always MY DINNER WITH ANDRE....

okgrown.bsky.social•32 days ago

There needs to be a cooking show called
twelve hangry gentlemen

mrliam.bsky.social•32 days ago

Some of us blissfully have no idea. :-)

christopherstrat.bsky.social•32 days ago

Tarantino must love it.

archeryfan93.bsky.social•31 days ago

Haven’t seen it yet

hellskitch.bsky.social•32 days ago

It was silly, entertaining and had a lot of stuff going on but Tom did look good:)

jeffpratt.bsky.social•32 days ago

Maybe the impossible mission is to talk the entire movie. No running allowed.

dogslovesushi.bsky.social•32 days ago

His running scenes were so unrealistic. Instead of just grabbing a taxi, he runs across the bridge and to the Tube areas when he has to be there really quickly. And then he has to run through half of South Africa to catch the plane.

ladydit.bsky.social•31 days ago

You are also correct

ladydit.bsky.social•31 days ago

Him running is poetry in motion. Don’t squash the dream 🙃

englishteacher75.bsky.social•32 days ago

Agreed

seahorse71.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yes and very dramatic whispers. Almost a parody of itself.

southerndandy.bsky.social•32 days ago

Indeed. But it gets going eventually.

mabrownstuff.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yet to see it, but that's given me an interesting preview of the mission, should I choose to accept it.

themagnuspi.bsky.social•32 days ago

You were known to talk a lot in movies, Sir!

dogslovesushi.bsky.social•32 days ago

There’s talking and then there is what happened in Mission impossible. They were trying to tie the gazillion other MI films together to connect to this final one.

rondubin.bsky.social•32 days ago

I’m currently reading Sidney Lumet’s book “Making Movies.” He said it’s supposed to be claustrophobic and explains how he used lenses to effectuate that feeling because otherwise, it’s just 12 guys talking. So Tom Cruise is 5 million feet up on a bungee same?

jimmargolis.bsky.social•32 days ago

Not only that but the camera angles get progressively lower and tighter to increase the tension [in Twelve Angry Men, haven't seen MI yet].

rondubin.bsky.social•32 days ago

That too.

dogslovesushi.bsky.social•32 days ago

That is such a great movie.

oatsdad.bsky.social•32 days ago

Woof - I misread and thought you just said FIFTEEN minutes, not 1:15.

Yeah, that sounds darned chatty!

nrothont.bsky.social•32 days ago

That's what the reviewers at LAIST said!

pmac10000.bsky.social•32 days ago

I didn't know I cared about how every MI movie connected to every other one... until I realized immediately, that I didn't. AT ALL!
#WheresMyActionMovie
#MissionExposition

schmada.bsky.social•32 days ago

The first hour was like a dozen short stories by a dozen different authors. Incredibly fragmented.

scalesofliberty.bsky.social•32 days ago

yep

trshea.bsky.social•32 days ago

This is cinema:

boltyboy.bsky.social•32 days ago

Reminds me of when I took my 8 yr old boy to see the Top Gun sequel and he asked me why all that talking was interrupting the flying

jennyfromhr.bsky.social•32 days ago

Haven't seen it yet. Isn't this like the tenth one? It's not mission impossible, its mission mostly possible?

superwho86.bsky.social•32 days ago

Juror number two is a new twelve angry men.

mrjoncryer.bsky.social•32 days ago

Btw I paid to see it in the theater and I have no regrets. Just sayin’.

sadknob.bsky.social•32 days ago

same.

forrealgirl.bsky.social•32 days ago

Tom Cruise never disappoints.

captainles.bsky.social•32 days ago

Hey, who doesn't love the idea of a guy who can still Secret Agent when he's 90.

mvronsky.bsky.social•32 days ago

Glad I saw in theater but won't be revisiting at home. I did like it.

marieinsedona.bsky.social•32 days ago

Ahh, movies. The things that I used to do before Covid, inflation and now destruction of my healthcare. Thanks MAGA. Thanks non-voters.

mrjoncryer.bsky.social•32 days ago

And, I might add, I loved Twelve Angry Men.

sadknob.bsky.social•32 days ago

agreed.

jamesspragins1.bsky.social•32 days ago

Lee Jay Cobb and Henry Fonda

cmmoore75.bsky.social•32 days ago

Truly one of my favorites EVER.

hazmatcorntail.bsky.social•32 days ago

I loved that too, I’m gonna have to watch it again this weekend.

feefer2.bsky.social•32 days ago

I saw “The Mortal Storm” (1940) last night on TCM, starring Fonda’s best friend, Jimmy Stewart (who served in WWII).

It was film that convinced Hitler to ban MGM films in NAZI GE as it dared depict treatment of Jews under NAZI regime (Hitler called it “Jewish propaganda”). 🙄

Seems timely again.

ceindeed.bsky.social•32 days ago

I think this Cruise guy has some potential, honestly.

louvic2.bsky.social•32 days ago

On NPR someone said that if you need to use the bathroom this is a good time to go and you won't miss much.

3fecta.bsky.social•32 days ago

I even liked the remake with Tony Danza.

tshenkman.bsky.social•32 days ago

Me too. Didn’t get the criticism🙄🤔

norbizness.bsky.social•32 days ago

Did Lee J. Cobb or Ed Begley Sr. jump out of a plane?

mfriedman803.bsky.social•32 days ago

Have not seen the new Mission Impossible, but as to Twelve Angry Men, hard not to love.

pridenpioneers.bsky.social•32 days ago

Twelve angry white men or as I call the tRumps cabinet

eeknight.bsky.social•32 days ago

Which one would you most like to play?

wattle.bsky.social•32 days ago

I'm seeing it tomorrow and am concerned because one thing you couldn't say about the previous installments is that they were boring

sn8keeyes19.bsky.social•32 days ago

You should watch Pretty in Pink instead. Classic. Ever heard of it?

davidonstrike.bsky.social•32 days ago

This might be the talkiest movie review I’ve ever read.

englishmansdcc.bsky.social•32 days ago

tamarahogan1.bsky.social•32 days ago

"As you know, Bob..."

shiftbreak.bsky.social•31 days ago

Oration Possible?

bluecarcharodon.bsky.social•32 days ago

Can not do it. Not a Cruise fan.

dogslovesushi.bsky.social•32 days ago

I like Simon Pegg & Pom Klementieff. I also found out Lucy Tulugarjuk is in it. She was in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, which was such a good film.

That raises a problem with language. Lucy is from Nunavut and speaks eastern Arctic Inuktitut. In the movie, they are in Alaska. Different dialect.

mnwildfan78.bsky.social•32 days ago

Still bitter at not getting a call back to play Ethan Hunt, huh?

petedavidsonny.bsky.social•32 days ago

Closure can get chatty.

altasarita.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yah it was surprisingly bad.

williasr.bsky.social•32 days ago

It can't be talkier than the first two-thirds of Rogue One

cwolfe007.bsky.social•32 days ago

And yet I'm still excited to see it!

dogslovesushi.bsky.social•31 days ago

This is a fascinating history of linking Topkapi (the old movie) to MI

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ2B0TvSgmP/?igsh=MXI0MnR3YzF6NXYzMA==

dogslovesushi.bsky.social•32 days ago

I found the first 1/3 to be boring and stilted. People were leaving for snacks, which they wouldn’t do if interesting. However, once they introduced Lucy Tulugarjuk’s character, I perked up. She is an Inuk from Igloolik, Nunavut. She and Pom Klementieff were the highlights of the film.

dogslovesushi.bsky.social•32 days ago

Lucy Tulugarjuk looked familiar and after googling, I found out she was one of the leads of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, and is still as serenely beautiful as she was in 2002.

rediculous1.bsky.social•32 days ago

Not you. It's like shut uuuup already.

citywide03.bsky.social•31 days ago

Talkier than My Dinner With Andre? Now that’s talkie

scotrekw2ts.bsky.social•31 days ago

Wait, it's more than an hour & a half long?
Do we get a bathroom break around that point, or is a marathon?

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